Friday, February 06, 2009

Macarons II

Macarons, the cute and adorable little cookies from France! My obsession with it started last year when I saw them popping up on many baking blogs. Every blog I visited, someone was making them. And, how could I not fall in love with them as well? They are so many variations of them and I just love them all. I never tasted one until Diana bought me a big box all the way from Paris. From then on I was hooked.

I tried baking them a couple of times but fail miserably but I was determined to try again until I get it right. Finally with Tartelette recipe and tips I made some decent looking ones.

I baked another batch of these little morsels again using Tartelette recipe and it turn out much better than the first batch. I still need a lot of practice to get the size right and learn to control the temperature of my oven. Hopefully the next batch will be much batter than this one. Time to start collecting egg whites again ;) For the recipe of the Macarons please refer here .

27 comments:

They look beautiful!!I have never tried these, because I have never been hooked: I am not a sweet tooth! But I have noticed that for the last years the French were obsessed with macaroons and verrines!Another French website you might want to check out for macaroons is la cuisine de Mercotte, I think you'll love it too!I love Tartelette's blog and I keep coming back to it, but I don't make the cakes, I always go for savoury!...Looks to me that you are mastering, I draw my hat to you! :)

Hai Gert, really tempting!! FYI, I've never attempted any macarons but yours one really inspired me to try it out one day..

Gert, can you pls sms me your phone number once again. Last week my hp got system error and it has been reformated by the retailer. But then, I realised that many of new numbers being saved had lost icluding yours...huhuu

oh my.. they're beautiful.. I, too, have been wanting to try and bake them myself but haven't gotten around to doing it! I already have a bookmarked recipe that is just waiting for the right time! :o) your macarons look delish.

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